FEUDING FAMILIES
Hamlet is angry with his mother for assuming this relationship status.
What is "married"?
The gravedigger offers up this jester's skull as an example of decomposition rates.
Who is Yorick?
Before the play's events, the king of this land fought a duel with King Hamlet.
What is Norway?
Before she fell in the brook, Ophelia was hanging wreaths on this kind of tree.
What is a willow?
Though admirable, a tragic hero also has this bad trait.
What is a tragic flaw?
After her father's killing, Ophelia begins obsessively gathering these objects.
What are flowers?
This best friend of Hamlet is the only character in both the first scene and the last scene.
Who is Horatio?
A guard declares, after seeing a ghost, that "something is rotten" in this kingdom.
What is Denmark?
This location was twice used for spying, the second time with fatal results!
What is "behind a tapestry"?
This afterlife destination, denied by Protestants, may be King Hamlet's current residence.
What is Purgatory?
King Claudius murdered his brother using this unusual method of poisoning.
What is "pouring poison in his ear"?
A traveling company of actors performs this play to "catch the conscience of the king."
What is "The Mousetrap"? OR "The Murder of Gonzago"?
The university of this French city was famous for drinking, dueling, and dicing.
What is Paris?
If they hadn't found the corpse of Polonius, they would have smelled it in this place.
What is "under the stairs"?
Hamlet's soliloquies helped birth Modernity's obsession with this concept.
What is the Individual?
Laertes plans to avenge his mother and sister by means of this kind of contest.
What is a duel?
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die because of a forged instance of this kind of document.
What is a letter?
Hamlet is sent to this vassal kingdom of the Danish king ... to meet his death!
What is England?
This castle is Hamlet's home and Hamlet's setting.
What is Elsinore?
This Latin motto is associated with Hamlet's skull-based musings on human mortality.
What is "memento mori"?
This son wants to avenge his father by invading Denmark, but settles for Poland.
Who is Prince Fortinbras?
King Claudius sends these two ambassadors to Norway to avert an invasion.
Who are Cornelius and Voltemand?
Hamlet attends a university in this German city, the home of Martin Luther.
What is Wittenberg?
Hamlet often walks in this room, where he tells Ophelia, "get thee to a nunnery!"
What is the lobby?
The fashion for "revenge tragedies" was sparked by this play by Thomas Kyd.
What is "The Spanish Tragedy"?